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Jan, 1997 the author, ira byock, is a doctor in montana specializing in helping dying patients. This right to physician aid in dying quintessentially involves the inviolable right to human dignityour most fragile right. Death is an individual experience, but a community of accompaniment on the journey can help us to prepare by bringing consolation and spiritual peace. Providing hopeful accompaniment for the human journey dying well means different things to us all. But i believe the rhetoric of the debate misappropriates the word. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, medical drama, and conflict. It introduced me to the possibility that with appropriate support, dying did not have to be a chaotic, fearridden and painful experience. Caring in torrance is to offer wholeperson health care for frail elders.
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